Notification by email when new answer is posted

Carlo_13

Hello everyone.

I have got a quick question about vanilla.

How can I notify my forum user by email when:

• He is mentioned like (@username)
• When somebody answers his thread
• When somebody answers a thread he participated

So far, only private message are sent by email.

Thanks a lot

whu606

@Carlo_13

The way I suggested is the only one I know.

It worked for me.

Ideally, you'd do this on a local test installation first, so you get the hang of it.

If you are going to try this, make sure you have a back up of your DB.

I would also back up your gdn_permission table, as importing seems to mess up permissions.

Once you have exported and imported, you can import the gdn_permissions table to set things as they were.

Make sure you are logged in as the original admin user for import and export.

Tama

This is in their notification settings. To set this by default have a look at

$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['ConversationMessage']   = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['BookmarkComment']       = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['WallComment']           = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['ActivityComment']       = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['DiscussionComment']     = '0'; // Looks like you want this ( set to 1)
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['ConversationMessage']   = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['BookmarkComment']       = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['WallComment']           = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['ActivityComment']       = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['DiscussionComment']     = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['Mention']               = '0'; //and this  ( set to 1)
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['Mention']               = '1';

and add the ones you need to config.php you can find more config options at https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/blob/master/conf/config-defaults.php ,or in the same file on your install.

whu606

@Carlo_13

Setting the default in config.php will do what you want, but will only impact new users.

You could make an announcement asking users to change their preferences.

If you wanted to force all your users to have the same preferences, you could set the config as above, then export and import the user DB using Vanilla porter.

Obviously, make sure you have a proper back up before attempting anything like that!

Carlo_13

Hi @Tama & @whu606, thanks for your answers guys.

Is there a way I change those settings in the database for everyone ?

whu606

@Carlo_13

The way I suggested is the only one I know.

It worked for me.

Ideally, you'd do this on a local test installation first, so you get the hang of it.

If you are going to try this, make sure you have a back up of your DB.

I would also back up your gdn_permission table, as importing seems to mess up permissions.

Once you have exported and imported, you can import the gdn_permissions table to set things as they were.

Make sure you are logged in as the original admin user for import and export.